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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: her she would have fallen.
"Will you--please--for some one?" she whispered faintly, at the same time
pushing him away.
"How absurd!" burst out Alfred, indignantly. "Am I then, so distasteful to you
that you would rather wait here and suffer a half hour longer while I go for
assistance? It is only common courtesy on my part. I do not want to carry you.
I think you would be quite heavy."
He said this in a hard, bitter tone, deeply hurt that she would not accept
even a little kindness from him. He looked away from her and waited. Presently
a soft, half-smothered sob came from Betty and it expressed such utter
wretchedness that his heart melted. After all she was only a child. He turned
Betty Zane | 
